They didn’t exactly cuddle and bubble, but town officials and business leaders sat down with the owners of the International Inn on Main Street in Hyannis last week and, by all accounts, improved communications.

That news came April 27 during another show-cause hearing for the business before the licensing authority. This time it was management’s failure to advise the town that its latest general manager had left the position.

Bohn Banta and Ravi Ahuja apologized for what they called a mistake and presented their new manager, Harold Daniels of Memphis, Tennessee.

Daniels, in a honeyed Southern accent he declared he will not lose, said he’s managed hostelries ranging from Holiday Inn to Rodeway and beyond. He said he’s worked with organized crime strike forces and other government agencies to clean up properties that have been taken over by less than desirable guests and employees.

He promised to be in residence, even announcing his room number, and to work to reduce the number of police calls to the establishment.

The authority was skeptical.

“We heard about the same presentation at the last hearing,” member Gene Burman said, “and in two weeks, [that manager] was gone.”

Attending the meeting last week with the owners were one of the board’s liaisons with the police department, Lt. John Murphy; interim regulatory services director Richard Scali; and Elizabeth Wurfbain, executive director of the Hyannis Main Street Business Improvement District.

The owners “are committed to making a change,” Wurfbain told the board, “partly because, if they don’t, they will not go forward in a profitable way… They’ve been read the riot act.”

Murphy agreed and asked the board not to impose the two-day suspension, to be served in February, that was held in abeyance after an earlier show-cause hearing. Scali, who said he saw progress but added, “We’re not there yet,” said the suspension should be served.

And so it will be, with the Inn’s permission to serve liquor suspended on May 6 and 7, with two more days to be applied if the business fails to comply with the board’s notification requirements.

The International Inn has retained familiar Cape face John Keston as food and beverage manager.